national wildlife refuges

WASHINGTON, DC, October 29, 2008 (ENS) – In the waning days of the Bush administration, Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne Tuesday announced a plan to conserve bison, also called buffalo, with a second interagency group. He said the department will work with state, tribal and agricultural interests to promote cooperative conservation in bison management.…

WASHINGTON, DC, May 22, 2008 (ENS) – National Wildlife Refuges are supposed to shelter wild animals and plants but many refuges themselves are under siege, according to a new survey of refuge managers and staff by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER, a service organization assisting federal and state workers in natural resource agencies. The…

KLAMATH, California, January 15, 2008 (ENS) – More than two years of negotiation among interest groups from farmers to fishermen to conservationists has produced a $400 million, 10 year restoration agreement for the Klamath River Basin that could put an end to at least a decade of wrangling over water and power management in the…